Improvement in trimmings



.IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AUGUST STURM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORT0 ROBERTS MANUFAU- TURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRIMMINGS.

Specification formin g part of Letters Patent N0. 183,722, dated October24, 1876; application filed September 29, 1876.

T0 all whom z't mag concem:

Be it kuown that I, AUGUST STURM, of the city and county and State ofNew York, have invented certain new und. useful Improvements inTrimmings, 0f whioh the following is a specifieation My iuventiourelates to that kind of trimming in which the goods a1e ruffled 01plaited to form ruffling. 'Ihe objeet is to produee inexpensively andreadily ornaxnental ruffling whieh shall present all the appearanee ot'being embroidered.

T0 effect this result I lay 011 the goods when p1ain, 0r before beingruffled, one er more threads, which extend lougitudinally of the fabricin the line of the ruffling, am]. then rufl'tle 01 plait tl1e fabric.The latter operation breaks the continuity of the thread 0r threadsprelixninarily laid 0n and gives the eompleted ruffle the appeamance 0fbeing elaborately embroidered. The thread or threads may be attached to01 united with the fabric in any desired manner. I prefer t0 lay them onin irregular or wavy lines, am]. unite thern with the fabrie by layingthem 0n oue faee thereof and securing them in plane by sizing, 0r ina.ny other desired way. The exposed 01 outer face of the ruffle is thatopposite t0 that face of the plain fabric, 0x1 which the thread is 1aid,so that when the goods are made up, the thread has the appearance ofbeing embroidered 01 interlaeed with the fabric. Orape, lisse, tarlatan,01 any other suitable light material, may be used as the body fabric forthe ruffle. The auxiliary threads may be 0f any desired 00101 and kind.

In the aecomp-anying drawing, Fig. 1 is a view 0f a plain unruffled.pieee 0f goods, A, with threads B laid thereon. Fig. 2 is a view ofruffling made from such a piece 0f goods as shown in Fig. l.

Having thus deseribed n1y invention, and the manner in which the smne is0r may be camried into effect, what I claim, und desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. The method described, of makiug ernamental ruffiing, consisting infirst unitiug with the plain fabric one 01 more threads laid 011, andextending longitudinally of the portiun of the fabrie to be ruffled, andthen ruffling er plaiting said fabric, as sei: forth.

2. As a new artiele 0t' manufacture, the ruffling made by the methodcomprehended in tl1e foregoing claim, substantially as set forth.

111 testimony whereof I have hereunto sigued my nenne this 27th day ofSeptember,

AUGUST STURM. Witnesses:

R. W. ROBERTS, S. VAN ZANDT.

